Re: Finding Local Tech Writing Job...

Subject: Re: Finding Local Tech Writing Job...
From: Solveig Haugland <solveig -at- techwriterstuff -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:22:06 -0700


> Show up at the local STC and other useful networking groups, but also, I'd
> suggest going to a local Java User Group or whatever technical group would be
> useful on the networking side. If you're a hardware writer, I'm not sure if
> there's a Hardware User Group though of course that would make a cute acronym.
> But that's the gist.
>
> And, OK, this is going to sound odd but in my neck of the woods, the Ultimate
> Frisbee teams are stuffed chock full of technical people. It's 90% techies and
> 10% massage therapists here. (Boulder.) In order to find technical people to hire
> or spread jobs around in tech, we just send around a message on our Ultimate
> yahoo list. My friend Paul just sent around a job this morning for a Solaris
> sysadmin and an acquaintance on the list just got hired for my old job at BEA. So
> in short, if you're already a sports-oriented person or if this sounds fun
> anyway, you might look up the local Ultimate organization, find some pickup
> games, and network that too.
>
> Solveig
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